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Hamburger pasta
Pasta night and burger night… on the same night? Count us in! This crowd-pleasing, hunger-busting feast features sizzled beef mince, baby toms, green pepper and onion in a ketchup-style sauce, topped with tang-tastic gherkins. All the burger fun, with satisfying pasta instead of a bun.
SWK: High protein
Plants 5
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard (Mustard) (Water, Mustard Seeds (Ground), Spirit Vinegar, Salt)
- 2 pepper
- 80g gherkins (Sulphites) (Gherkins, water, spirit vinegar, acid: acetic acid, salt, preservative: E223 (SULPHITE))
- 2 onion
- 400g pasta (Wheat) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina (Allergen Declaration: Contains Wheat Gluten))
- 500g beef mince (5% fat or less)
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 beef stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch* , palm oil* , vegetables* 4.8% (onions* 4%, carrots* 0.5%, mushrooms* 0.3%), sugar*, natural flavour caramelised* , yeast extract, beef powder* 1.5%, beef* 1.2%, spices and herbs* (parsley* , black pepper* , rosemary*, garlic*, turmeric*, bay leaves*) * Organic ingredients)
- 2 x 15ml Henderson's Relish (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Colour – Caramel E150a, Sugar Syrup, Salt, Tamarinds, Acetic Acid, Cayenne Pepper, Cloves, Garlic Oil, Tragacanth Gum E413)
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 190g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 595
Protein: 41g
Carbs: 87g
Fat: 8.9g
Ingredients
- 1 pepper
- 40g gherkins (Sulphites) (Gherkins, water, spirit vinegar, acid: acetic acid, salt, preservative: E223 (SULPHITE))
- 200g pasta (Wheat) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina (Allergen Declaration: Contains Wheat Gluten))
- 250g beef mince (5% fat or less)
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard (Mustard) (Water, Mustard Seeds (Ground), Spirit Vinegar, Salt)
- 1 beef stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch* , palm oil* , vegetables* 4.8% (onions* 4%, carrots* 0.5%, mushrooms* 0.3%), sugar*, natural flavour caramelised* , yeast extract, beef powder* 1.5%, beef* 1.2%, spices and herbs* (parsley* , black pepper* , rosemary*, garlic*, turmeric*, bay leaves*) * Organic ingredients)
- 1 x 15ml Henderson's Relish (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Colour – Caramel E150a, Sugar Syrup, Salt, Tamarinds, Acetic Acid, Cayenne Pepper, Cloves, Garlic Oil, Tragacanth Gum E413)
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 100g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
- 1 onion
Nutritional Information
Calories: 597
Protein: 41g
Carbs: 87g
Fat: 9.1g
Hamburger pasta
Pasta night and burger night… on the same night? Count us in! This crowd-pleasing, hunger-busting feast features sizzled beef mince, baby toms, green pepper and onion in a ketchup-style sauce, topped with tang-tastic gherkins. All the burger fun, with satisfying pasta instead of a bun.
Cook time:
25 mins
Cuisine:
American
Food group:
Beef
Allergens: Mustard, Sulphites, Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1 large saucepan
- 1 large non stick frying pan
Get prepping
- Peel and finely dice the onions, then deseed the peppers and dice into 1cm squares. Thinly slice the gherkins.
Pop the pasta on
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Things get saucy!
- Meanwhile, spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the onions, peppers, tomatoes and mince for 6-7 mins.
- Squeeze in the passata, crumble in half the stock cube and pour in 250ml water (use all the stock and 350ml water for 4 portions), then add the Hendersonʼs Relish. Stir well and simmer for 5 mins.
Boost the flavour
- Finely chop the parsley.
- Add half the gherkins, all the parsley and the mustard to the sauce, then tip in the pasta and stir well to combine.
A final flourish...
- Scatter the remaining gherkins over the pasta and serve.